Nobody Cares

It looks like Bush, Blair and Howard will get away with it after all. Anyone who cares enough to investigate will conclude, inevitably, that these men lied about the need to go to war in Iraq (see my posts below for the last four months). They lied. Our governments lied to us.

Nobody cares. Bush and Howard are already off the hook. Nobody has resigned, nobody has been sacked, nobody has been impeached. Nobody cares. Blair is still facing an inquiry into the death of BBC informer Dr Kelly and the results are liable to raise more embarrassing questions for the British government, but in the meantime the (inevitably slow) inquiry itself is taking the heat off the real issues.


So welcome to the New World Order. Welcome to capitalism unconstrained by truth or justice. Even though their constitution and all their legal and civil institutions are based on the will and power of "we the people", even though their country has become the most powerful empire on earth, most Americans would rather watch sports than politics. Half of them cannot even be bothered with voting for the person who will hold the most powerful office in the history of the universe. Brits are still more likely to trust the BBC than their government, but Australians do not care that their ABC is being forced to cut news shows while being unfairly accused of anti-American bias by the Minister for Communications.

Nobody cares.

So what does that make me, wasting my time with this Blog? An idiot.

For anyone who DOES still care, the last hope is that Blair will be forced to resign, which could possibly put pressure on Bush and Howard to also accept responsibility. If that happened, the media circus COULD be just enough to inspire some public outrage. Of course, that would depend a lot on political deals with Rupert Murdoch et al. Elections for Bush and Howard are due next year. Who knows? Murdoch might sell more papers by double-crossing his mates and calling for their scalps.

But it's not likely.